Key Compliance Definitions

REPRESENTATIVE OF EAST CAROLINA ATHLETICS INTERESTS
By NCAA definition, a representative of our athletics interest is an individual, independent agency, corporate entity (e.g., apparel or equipment manufacturer) or other organization who is known (or who should have been known) by ECU:

(a) Have participated in or to be a member of an agency or organization promoting the ECU's athletics program;
(b) Have made financial contributions to the athletics department or to an athletics booster organization of ECU;
(c) Be assisting or to have been requested (by the athletics department staff) to assist in the recruitment of prospective student-athletes;
(d) Be assisting or to have assisted in providing benefits to enrolled student-athletes or their families; or
(e) Have been involved otherwise in promoting the institution's athletics program.

PROSPECTIVE STUDENT ATHLETE
(a.k.a.. PSA, prospect, recruit)
A prospective student-athlete is a student who has started classes for the ninth grade. In addition, a student who has not started classes for the ninth grade becomes a prospective student-athlete if the institution provides such an individual (or the individual's family members or friends) any financial assistance or other benefits that the institution does not provide to prospective students generally. An individual remains a prospective student-athlete until:

(a) The individual signs the institution’s written offer of admission and/or financial aid or the institution receives the individual’s  financial deposit in response to its offer of admission, completes all high school graduation requirements or all transfer academic eligibility requirements and receives benefits or expenses from the institution that may be provided to a student-athlete (see Bylaw 16);

(b) The individual participates in summer athletic activities, or regular squad practice or competition that occurs before the beginning of any term at the institution;

(c) The individual enrolls in and attends classes during the institution's summer term before initial full-time enrollment or enrolls in a minimum full-time program of studies and attends classes in a regular term at the institution; or

(d) The individual reports to an institutional orientation session that is open to all incoming students within 14 calendar days prior to the opening day of classes of a regular academic year term.

RECRUITING
Actions by staff members or athletics representatives that cause a prospective student-athlete to become a recruited prospective student-athlete at that institution are:

(a) Providing the prospective student-athlete with an official visit;

(b) Having an arranged, in-person, off-campus encounter with the prospective student-athlete or the prospective student-athlete's family members; or

(c) Issuing the institution's written offer of athletically related financial aid to the prospective student-athlete. Issuing a written offer of athletically related financial aid to a prospective student-athlete to attend a summer session prior to full-time enrollment does not cause the prospective student-athlete to become recruited.

RECRUITING DEFINITION
Official Visit
An official visit to a member institution by a prospective student-athlete is a visit financed in whole or in part by the member institution.

Unofficial Visit
An unofficial visit to a member institution by a prospective student-athlete is a visit made at the prospective student-athlete's own expense.

Family Member (as defined by the NCAA)
A family member is an individual with any of the following relationships to the prospective student-athlete: spouse, parent or legal guardian, child, sibling, grandparent, domestic partner or any individual whose close association with the prospective student-athlete is the practical equivalent of a family relationship.

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